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Featured Speakers

We’ve got a fantastic list of speakers lined up for NZOUG 2013. They come from all corners of the world, from Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores to across the ditch in Australia, to the suburbs of Auckland. Below you will find individual profiles of our 21 featured speakers—the gurus and legends—who are thought-provoking, inspiring, educational, internationally renowned and recognised as leaders in their field. Click on their photos below to learn more! A full list of confirmed speakers is at the bottom of the page.

A huge “thank you” to the Oracle Technology Network for sponsoring many of our star overseas speakers. Another huge “thank you” to ODTUG who have teamed up with us to bring you a great selection of Business Intelligence content.

Tom is Vice President of the Core Technologies Group. Before starting at Oracle, he worked as a systems integrator building large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications, mostly for military and government customers. Tom spends a great deal of time working with the Oracle database and, more specifically, working with people who are working with the Oracle database. In addition, he is the Tom behind the AskTom column in Oracle Magazine, answering people’s questions about the Oracle database and its tools. He is also the author of many Oracle-specific books.

Nadia is a Senior Director of Applications Development at Oracle Corporation. She joined Oracle 21 years ago and her main objective is to help customers understand the value that the technology brings to the Enterprise Applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite. Nadia spends lots of time covering various Oracle-related events, and any external communications on how Oracle E-Business Suite customers can prepare their upgrade project to Release 12.1 with some best practices learnt from those who have gone through this project already.

John leads the business development function for the JD Edwards organisation within Oracle, including relationships with and strategies for partners and system integrators. With experience in development, strategy, product management, product marketing, customer loyalty and support teams, John leads his global team to support JD Edwards in all revenue ranges and industries. He is a strong advocate for JD Edwards, ensuring that its features grow with the increasing demands of its loyal users.

After 20 years working as a Senior DBA and Architect for Datacom, Air New Zealand and Fujitsu and with a brief stint in sales for IT infrastructure company Open System Specialists (OSS), Stuart founded enterprise IT in 2005 with the belief that it is possible to deliver “I.T. right first time.”

Proud to be a founding member of Oracle New Zealand, Paul has spent over 25 years solving knotty database problems for large enterprise and public sector organisations, and businesses trying to pull meaningful information from a sea of data. He is a pragmatic DBA drawing on his technical expertise and knowledge of how the real business world works to provide consulting services that are truly appreciated by customers.

Doug is Vice President – Applications Product Management for Japan and Asia Pacific at Oracle Corporation. He’s responsible for all Applications interactions between the Japan and Asia Pacific Field organizations and Development. Tasks undertaken by the Product Management group include a very diverse range of responsibilities, from product demonstrations to customer escalations. Doug is also a member of the Asia Pacific Applications Senior Management Team and is a member of the Global Fusion Applications Board.

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The New Zealand Oracle Users Group was founded in 1989. This independent group is for all Oracle users and is a forum to share ideas and interests. We are always open to new ideas about how we can improve the NZOUG so please send through your ideas.
Since the merger of Oracle, Peoplesoft and JDE we have joined forces with the NZ Peoplesoft & JDE users to create a large user group to assist all "Oracle" users in New Zealand to maximise their return on the investment they have made in what is now Oracle Technology.
We look forward to working with all Oracle Users in New Zealand to achieve this goal.